Commercial Disappearance and Composite Demand for Food with an Application to U.S. Meats

When elementary prices move strictly proportionately, aggregation over a group of diverse products is valid, and group demand responses can be decomposed into quality and quantity responses. This study shows that when relative elementary prices and group prices are stochastically independent, a simi...

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Main Authors: Albert J. Reed, J. William Levedahl, J. Stephen Clark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 2003-04-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30719